Notes
Official results:
5km: 25:46
2nd 5km: 24:44 (Inverse splits!)
10km: 50:30
Didn't have the best preperation for this race. Ran Premiärmilen 7 weeks ago but then only played football (no running) for 6 weeks. On race day (a Tuesday) had the skits after lunch (avoid Lilla Capri!) and 1 hour before the race had decided to withdraw. Changed my mind as I felt like it would make a nice story if anything untoward happened (it didn't).
This was the first race Liisa wasn't here with me, she had a cold and it was a dreich day. It rained all day but was dry for the race around Djurgårdsbrunnsviken. The start was very cramped, make a note not to start at the back again, at times it was hard to actually run. Started the watch a little too early (5-10 seconds) but then settled into my rhythm.
Was a bit hilly but not so bad and was on target for 50mins (accordingly to the watch anyway) up until 6.75km or so. Got slower and slower as it went on and had a late spurt around 8.5km, which then faded. Mistook the start area as the finish line and so my sprint was quite early and had to run up a small hill with nothing left - although managed a mini-sprint at the end.
Didn't expect to beat my PB or 50min goal here, due the lack of training plus stomach issues but a good effort nonetheless. Not so far away from the PB once the early watch start is lopped off.
Was 15 seconds behind PB after the first cramped 1km but was 12 seconds ahead at 4km. Down to 2 seconds ahead at 6km and back up to 14 seconds at 9km. The huge sprint on the PB meant that at 10km watch distance I was 16 seconds behind.